banish
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But the real frustration will come from the fact Spurs had the opportunity to banish all relegation fears here and were simply not good enough to take advantage.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
He also claims that the prince fears that his brother, the future king, "could remove all the Sussexes' titles and effectively banish him from Britain".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Then they left once more, so she could think of a plan to banish the witch.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
This major win, surely, banishes such a notion.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was a note of caution that showed questions about the Games' future had not been banished as the 2026 Games closed on Sunday evening.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Its pendant is a statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, banished from New York’s City Council Chamber in 2021 because of what the exhibition calls “his history as an enslaver.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Not every present is greeted with delight - so instead of banishing them to the back of a cupboard, how can you get rid of them without causing offence?
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
She has performed a kind of emergency triage, banishing the infected to save the well.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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